Thread for Lydia Loveless, Country-Rock Lady I Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDq1_rnJVE4

a little loretta, a little exene, a little westerberg overall imo

big fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaxL3KzZV4

happy birthday to Lydia Lunch!

hell of a voice, good lookin out hoos

Found out about her through a baseball podcast of all places last year. Especially love "Can't Change Me".

digging the new one - although I'm not sure how memorable this music really is

the new one is good!

for one second i misread it as Lydia Lunch on spotify and i was like damn new direction!

Maybe the Lydias will get together; could imagine a real good record (Together Again, or Reunited, or Let It; something like that).
I usually stick to links, but here's some freshly rescued blog-bait,fed to http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com: LL featurette and shorter preview; can skip to the latter re the gist of her appeal:

Just noticed that the place where this was first published has once again re-launched, once again sans most of its archives, at least those from 2011. Lydia Loveless has a new album out; more on that later, but here's some backstory (if Local Pop Radio's podcasts are still up---can also try it via patradio---they're a great trove of OH punk and other indie through the aeons):

LYDIA LOVELESS BRINGS THE PUNKY TONK TRUTH

By Don Allred for 4-18/19-2011

The living legend of Lydia Loveless began with the 2004 birth of her punk-inflected family new wave band, Carson Drew. Which is also the name of intrepid tween-lit girl detective Nancy Drew’s invaluable lawyer-father. So, the band’s name could be considered a salute to the then-14-year-old Loveless and her sisters’ own drumming dad, Parker Chandler. But, as their blog proclaimed, they were all “Carson Drew, Attorneys At Large”---ready to rock the halls of justice. Soon after the 2006 release of their album, “Under The Table”, Carson Drew imploded, and the country-bred Loveless reached for her heretofore-spurned roots. She wrote her first songs, busting the male malefactors of Columbus Babylon.

A still-available “Local Pop Radio Hour” podcast finds Loveless’s rhythm guitar and Chandler’s drums nailing a whirlwind of unanswered questions to a no-frills, every-night waltz. “Miller High Life” cross-examines the narrator, her man, her God, and even the “champagne of beers”, with a relentlessly spare clarity. This makes Loveless’s more typically cascading up-tempo testimonials seem like blessedly tempestuous vacation fare. Her characters were born to struggle, and they thrive on the noise-meets-poise of her 2010 solo debut album, “The Only Man.” Its independent producers excluded Chandler’s drums, among several other Nashville-associated decisions, but they were true venture capitalists, committed to finding new focus for Loveless’s jolting jukebox visions. Columbus-based Peloton Records’ Steve McGann released the album, then teamed Loveless and Chandler with equally seasoned lead guitarist Todd May and bassist Ben Lamb. McGann’s direction led them to Bloodshot, the pioneering record label of volatile Americana.

Loveless, now 20, is producing her Bloodshot album, “Indestructible Machine”----an appropriate title, judging by advance tracks. In writing them, she said, “I generally come up with a line that won't let me be. If a song wants to be written, it will get written.” The song’s gestation can take months, as Loveless tosses a bundle of inspiration to her band and audience, checking their responses. Then again, Loveless wrote several songs the night before her new album’s sessions began. “It was nerve-wracking but fun,” she reported. Another creation suddenly materialized at a Rock Potluck jam. “ I wanted to be good that day, and my fear made a song come out of me. I'm pretty proud of it.”

This show will feature “mostly new songs”, plus cover versions, probably including Goldfinger’s “Without Me” and CCR’s “Someday Never Comes.” Steve McGann also reminded us, “She almost always does ‘Miller High Life’ live.”

Lydia Loveless will be performing with supporting acts JKutchma and Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons at the Rumba Cafe on Thursday, April 21.The doors open at 9 p.m. $6 all audiences. For more information, please visit www.pelotonrecords.com or www.columbusrumbacafe.com.
In a nutshell, from 2010 preview & Nashville Scene ballot comments)
Veteran Columbus OH teen Lydia Loveless sometimes includes the
Replacements' intensely frustrated "Answering Machine" and Def
Leppard's dynamically mesmerized "Hysteria" with her punky tonk combos
deliveries, unstoppably tumbling up, down and onto life's thrilling,
killing, chilling and flat moments. Loretta Lynn's points of departure
are extended and twisted through Loveless' compactly epic,
self-written debut, The Only Man, as desperately wired sexual power
struggles zap the void in passing: "Girls suck/They suck and suck and
never get enough," wails one contender, but it's time to ricochet off
another incisive epitaph.

this album is terrific. WINE LIPS, imo, is the highlight of a very strong set of songs/performances.

Album is really good. One of the best of its kind, whatever that is, since the s/t Lucinda Williams. Or at least of a kind with that one.

Actually, maybe I'm getting Patty Griffin "Flaming Red" vibes from this?

since I posted up there on March 1, I've decided this is my favorite record of 2014 so far, which shocks the hell out of me

Every time I play this it's like "damn, why don't I play this all the time?" Appreciate the reminder.

Head is such a killer track. The cover at the end is great. There's basically one song on the whole album I don't love, and I don't even skip that one

"Wine Lips," "Head," "Verlaine Shot Rimbaud" make a heck of a trilogy. The one about the farm kills too; pretty much true-to-life, apparently (but if they hadn't had to sell it, her Dad might not have time to be her drummer, or not such a kickass one)

Yeah, this is absolutely great.

Not convinced it's better than Indestructible Machine yet, but there's clear growth/refinement. I've never gotten Lucinda or Patty vibes from Lydia--more just general Bloodshot vibes.

Definitely: solo and various combinations of Kelly Hogan, pre-New P. Neko, Carolyn Mark; also, in days of old, bands led by or featuring crucial female presences, like Trailer Bride, Moonshine Willie, The Meat Purveyors, The Mekons, for that matter (Plus others, mostly all-guy acts, I didn't follow as closely, like Split Lip Rayfield, Waco Brothers, Deadstring Brothers, Ha Ha Tonka, Robbie Fulks).

All Bloodshot! Or Bloodshot-distributed, like Carolyn Mark's albums on Canadian label Minty Fresh.

Deadstring Bros. are the best of the group of acts you "didn't follow as closely" that I know (not familiar with Split Lip Rayfield), but they're all basically in the lineage of The Mekons --> Uncle Tupelo --> A.M.-era Wilco. Certainly not earth-shattering, but Starving Winter Report is worth a listen.

See also: Nora O'Connor, Old 97s, Lone Justice.

Basically the personnel list for:

https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/files/styles/album-image/public/album-images/album_main_bs077.jpg?itok=jYvSuBIV

I picked this one up yesterday. Lots of terrific songs on here... especially feeling "Everything's Gone".

Speaking of Old 97s, she's doing a show with them in Columbus tomorrow evening; local station will stream: www.wcbe.org/listen! Dunno when it starts, exactly; promoter's site says "Doors Open 7:00 PM." That's Eastern Standard Time yall (note to Central self).

Corrected link: http://wcbe.org/listen

They're touring together. Saw photos of their DC gig but didn't make it myself.

new Old 97s album is approximately 74 bazillion times better than I would've expected it to be, ftr

Looks like they are not going to stream it, at least not now---I misunderstood the excited post on the station site. Shit, sorry.

saw her last night in a tiny packed club

amazing, obv

pre-set music was the entirety of the mats 'let it be' which

if i weren't already smitten

More details plz!

played a solid hour with stuff from all 3 records, roaring 3 guitar attack on the loud stuff and didn't miss a high note

mainly played a telecaster, which surprised me

surprised that it was a mostly middle aged crowd, but i guess she's doing kind of classic-rock-vibe stuff

saw her last night in a tiny packed club

amazing, obv

Yes! I saw her on a whim when I was in Louisville a few weeks ago, having never really listened to her before. Impressive. Did not know until I looked it up later that she's married to the bassist:
http://www.columbusalive.com/content/graphics/2014/02/26/ca-m-lydialoveless-10.jpg

they write a lot together too apparently

Washington Post freelancer liked her best at that gig without the band

Probably the most auspicious thing that happened to Loveless on Wednesday was when she popped a string on her electric guitar. Thereafter she played an acoustic guitar, allowing her vocals to float higher to the sonic surface.

For the final trio of songs, she performed alone. “Everything’s Gone” and “I Don’t Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)” were simply heartbreaking.

The clutter was cut away. And the point was made very clear. Loveless may never figure out what or whom she wants, or why, but in her own hands and voice, she’s got everything she needs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/lydia-loveless-deconstructing-country-rock-with-a-healthy-dose-of-frustration/2014/09/25/be3821a0-44db-11e4-8042-aaff1640082e_story.html

So glad she finally redeemed herself in that guy's eyes---and ears!

Just discovered her thanks to this thread, I love her! Thanks ILM!

Oh honey let me melt in your mouth tonight
Let me hold you in my palm like a prize tonight

She's great.

Last leg of the Somewhere Else tour: back to Skully's in Columbus on Friday, with another young Bloodshot turk: Cory Branan, whose new No-Hit Wonder incl. input from Isbell, Craig Finn etc. Can't cover it, but those currently better supplied w weed, whites and wine might be ready for the drive, before she goes away for a while:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1625543074336871/

i do like that cory branan

Lydia Loveless ‏@lydia_loveless

"So you are very straightforward and sing about sex. That's very manly."

Alfred on Lydia (and Jesse Ware, who seems pretty promising)
http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/jessie-ware-lydia-loveless/ Note re his mention of Westerberg, she's been covering Replacements, often as encores, from way back.

Kinda like her but she reminds me of the Hold Steady of all people, including crap production and mixing. I'm guessing she's much better live than on record.

Sure, sounds just like Craig Finn. Meanwhile (this is educational, at least for me):

Lydia Loveless ‏@lydia_loveless

That awkward moment when a guy tries to hit on you as you're on your way to take a period poop #reallife

hahaha

Don't get the Hold Steady comparison either, but I agree the mixing/engineering could be 10x better. One of my favorite songs on the album is the "Everything's Gone," which is almost entirely her voice and acoustic guitar. It's a beautiful, gripping song, yet every time I listen to it, I can't help but think, "This acoustic guitar sounds like complete shit, and it sounds like she's singing in a barn."

Ie, classic Bloodshot.

Unusually I pretty much disagree completely with Alf's review : 'Verlaine Shot Rimbaud' may be my favourite song of the year - the (rive) gaucherie of the conceit is totally redeemed by the way she sings "Just wanna know that I'm the one that makes you write that *shit*". But she totally flubs the post-pause "bay-bee" in 'They Don't Know'. Had to fill in an albums of the year poll last week and made this my no.2 - thinking now it should have been my no.1

it was my #1 for a lot of the year, not sure if it's gonna end up there or get knocked down a peg or two, but definitely top 5

post-pause "bay-bee" is definitely not perfect, but it's cute that way

in addition to slightly duff production, the drumming's not great on Somewhere Else: guy slows down sometimes during tracks and does some cruddy fills (weird thing is, I think it's the same dude on tour and he sounded fine when I saw her in Sept.). She's absolutely worth seeing live---wonderful stage presence. "Wine Lips" was a revelation. Bassist/husband has unfortunate resemblance to a Will Ferrell character.

Last I heard, the drummer was still her dad, Parker Chandler. See the early featurette upthread: he was the live and studio linchpin of their family new wave band, but was replaced by a session player [outside producers' decision] on Lydia's solo debut, The Only Man, which is quite good, and bit more country than her subsequent studio sets (all self-produced, I think). He's a bar-band lifer, but still hasn't recorded much more than she has, so not gonna sound right to every ear.

She had to get rid of Drummer Dad a while back ... not sure if he played on the newest record or not:

http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/WebExclusive/lydia_loveless-cowpunks_cleanses/Page/2

About your dad — he was your original drummer.
Uh-huh.

And you had to fire him last year?
Yeah, and I hate to use the word fired. I don't know what I would use. But I mean it wasn't really like "You suck, get out of my band." I tour three or four months out of the year and I was like, you know my dad is getting older and does he really want to live in a van? And he has a grandson and all of that stuff. So I kind of like, sent him home. I felt terrible about it but I think it was ultimately for the best. I think he's a lot happier now not living in a van.

yeah, the guy on Something Else isn't her dad.

Her buddy Lizard McGee's Earwig albums, the ones I've heard, are kind of prog, but tight considering

Lizard McGee ‏@earwigtheband

Ruined my jeans. Wiped out while chasing @lydia_loveless around the car. I totally ate it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1AB9J5IYAAQ_7m.jpg:large

Lydia Loveless ‏@lydia_loveless

Snow as we flee the woods. And those dunes...I am definitely not 11 anymore #deathwalk

‏@pattersonhood

Lydia Loveless. Badass! @ Bijou Theatre http://instagram.com/p/wSXRoTyqwv/

So this director with a good track record is crowdfunding a Lydia doc:

https://files.ctctcdn.com/67e4e85b001/6e160f83-53c5-4db4-84c7-9c0e9e1d5257.jpg

The story thus far:

Filmmaker Gorman Bechard, who has chronicled three of the most influential bands in the history of rock and roll with documentaries about The Replacements, Archers of Loaf, and Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart is turning his camera towards the future with his next film, WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS?

The feature-length documentary will follow Lydia Loveless and her band into the studio as they lay down tracks for their forthcoming record. Along with live performances shot specifically for the film and extensive interviews with Loveless and her band it will visit places integral to her musical development, delve into the realities of a working musician on the brink of major success, and answer the question: Who Is Lydia Loveless?

"Lydia is the future of rock and roll," director Bechard explains. "She straps you onto an emotional roller coaster of love, lust, drunken mistakes, a little stalking, a lot of heartbreak, and you're left breathless, stunned, happy to have taken the ride."

Music journalists from SPIN to Rolling Stone have likewise raved, with her last album SOMEWHERE ELSE finding its way onto many of 2014's Best Album lists.

"I'm excited to work with Gorman," says Loveless. "He's very passionate about music and about the true meaning and spirit of rock and roll."

Bechard's three previous music docs have all won critical praise. Rolling Stone called COLOR ME OBSESSED, A FILM ABOUT THE REPLACEMENTS one of "The Seven Best New Music Documentaries of the Year." The Seattle Times raved about the "raw power and mesmerizing hooks" in his Archers of Loaf concert film WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? While EVERY EVERYTHING: THE MUSIC, LIFE & TIMES OF GRANT HART was labeled "beautifully sad" by The Village Voice.

WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS? will be funded via a KickStarter campaign that runs through March 18th. The KickStarter campaign can be found at www.WhoIsLydiaLoveless.com

Filming is slated for spring and summer 2015, with a premiere planned for 2016.

For more information please visit: www.WhatWereWeThinkingFilms.com

Or email any requests to: WhoIsLydiaLovelessMO✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

the last part of that addy is MOVIE at you-know-whut

Her National Record Store Day contribution (Cory B.'s too):

http://www.buzzfeed.com/realmikesmith/this-country-rock-cover-of-prince-is-completely-am-anrs#.xsmW45Nb1g

"Catching Up With" LL:

Lydia Loveless ‏@lydia_loveless Nov 6

Last time I prayed on the toilet for three hours it was bc I ate at huddle house #bencarson

new song

http://www.stereogum.com/1879738/lydia-loveless-longer-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

v nice

I forgot about her 2014 album :(

Every time I play this it's like "damn, why don't I play this all the time?" Appreciate the reminder.
― Evan R, Monday, 21 April 2014 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ha, same boat still. New song is good, man her voice. She deserves better than that album cover though

we all do

I love the 2014 album.

me, too. was gonna say: especially "head", "really wanna see you", "wine lips"...but then i realized i was gonna name all the songs.

LYDIA LOVELESS’ VIDEO FOR “LONGER” PREMIERES ON
ROLLING STONE COUNTRY

NEW ALBUM REAL DUE AUGUST 19

ADDITIONAL TOUR DATES CONFIRMED WITH
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2016/05/BS239_lydialoveless_real_LPcover1600_0.jpg

“Uncompromising and direct, Loveless is one of those rare songwriting voices that seem destined to be sharing music with us for a long, long time.”—Paste

“Loveless has carved out an unmistakable voice as a songwriter, and she’s only getting better at using it to blur the line between running her mouth and pouring out her heart.”—Stereogum

“Bittersweet lyrics and a bruised but indomitable voice. She doesn’t write conventional tunes; even her love songs arrive with a twist.”—Greg Kot (Sound Opinions, The Chicago Tribune)

Lydia Loveless’ video for her track “Longer” premieres today on Rolling Stone Country, who call it, “an assault of crunchy power-pop, but behind the confident swagger are the tinge – and twang – of vulnerability.” Watch the video here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-lydia-loveless-day-in-bed-for-new-longer-video-20160706
The song appears on her highly anticipated new album, Real, which will be released August 19 via Bloodshot Records https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/real. In support of her forthcoming album Loveless confirms additional tour dates this fall with Drive-By Truckers. The dates extend Loveless’ ongoing North American tour with stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis and more. See below for complete tour dates.

Most recently, “Longer,” the first track to be revealed from Real, premiered on Stereogum. Of the song Stereogum says, “It’s like the Replacements soundtracking the sad aftermath of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’—which is to say, it’s awesome.” Listen here: http://www.stereogum.com/1879738/lydia-loveless-longer-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

Real was recorded at Sonic Lounge Studios in her home state of Ohio and was engineered and produced by Joe Viers (Dr. John, Twenty One Pilots). “I chose to work with Joe Viers, engineer and producer of my last three releases, again because I trust him completely not only with my music but with my words,” said Loveless. “There was a lot to say this time around and I wanted to return to that sort of playground and (sometimes literally) throw things at the wall. Whereas our previous records could be described as blunt or raw, this one I wanted to be known as honest, as true, as real (rimshot).”

Of the album Loveless says, “Because I feel like I spent my formative years flopping around like a fish, masking pain with substance abuse and somewhat ashamed of who I was—a hayseed, a phony, I felt—it was absolutely necessary for me to become a stronger, more confident human, or I was going to die. Real is my sort of love letter to that realization, that my existence was just as valid as any other.”

Loveless is joined on the album by Todd May (vocals, guitars, keys), Ben Lamb (bass), Jay Gasper (guitars, pedal steel, keys), George Hondroulis (drums, percussion, keys), Andy Harrison (guitar, keys) and Viers (percussion, guitar).

In 2011 Loveless released her second full-length album, Indestructible Machine, about which The Chicago Tribune says, “she conveys toughness, tenderness and humor with off-handed conviction.” Two years after the critical success of her breakout second record, Loveless released Somewhere Else. On Somewhere Else Loveless is less concerned with chasing approval—she scrapped an entire album’s worth of material—and more focused on fighting personal battles of longing, heartbreak and the aesthetic that comes along with them.

TRACK LIST
1. Same To You
2. Longer
3. More Than Ever
4. Heaven
5. Out On Love
6. Midwestern Guys
7. Bilbao
8. European
9. Clumps
10. Real

LYDIA LOVELESS LIVE
July 9 —Chicago, IL —Square Roots Festival
September 8—Columbus, OH —Ace Of Cups
September 9—Indianapolis, IN—The HiFi
September 10—Madison, WI—The Frequency
September 11—Milwaukee, WI—Colectivo on Prospect
September 15—St. Louis, MO––The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
September 16––Louisville, KY––Zanzabar
September 17––Cleveland, OH––Grog Shop
September 24–Minneapolis, MN–First Avenue*
September 25–Sioux Falls, SD–The District*
September 28––Missoula, MT––The Wilma*
September 29––Seattle, WA––The Showbox*
September 30––Portland, OR––Wonder Ballroom*
October 1––Portland, OR––Wonder Ballroom*
October 2––Vancouver, BC––Rickshaw*
October 5––Sacramento, CA––Ace of Spades*
October 6––San Francisco, CA––The Fillmore*
October 7––San Francisco, CA––The Fillmore*
October 8––Stateline, NV––Montbleu Rescort Casino*
October 11––Los Angeles, CA––Teragram Ballroom*
October 12––Los Angeles, CA––Teragram Ballroom*
October 13––Solana Beach, CA––Belly Up*
October 14––San Luis Obispo, CA––The Fremont Theater*
October 15––Scottsdale, AZ––Live Wire*
October 18––Austin, TX––Antone’s
October 19––Houston, TX––Continental Club
October 21––Birmingham, AL––The Saturn
October 22––Atlanta, GA––Terminal West

*with Drive-By Truckers

Interview on WGN Radio posted here:http://wgnradio.com/2016/07/09/getting-to-know-the-real-lydia-loveless/

The amazing singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless joins Justin to talk about her career, growing up in Ohio, being surrounded by music when she was younger, her new record, “Real,” opening up to experimentation, writing about pain and depression and putting it into music, how her voice has evolved, where she finds inspiration, working with Bloodshot Records and headlining tomorrow night at the Square Roots Festival. Lydia also sings a couple of songs including “Real” and “Somewhere Else.” Great!

I love the single.

New album streaming now:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/11/488660920/first-listen-lydia-loveless-real

this day keeps getting better

Plenty of tumult in several, as written and sung, also nobody's slacking, but aren't shredding and headbanging sideways into the walls of the barn, cos no barn, for one thing: we're somewhere, several wheres, relatively smoother and more spacious, also it just isn't 'llowed : "On these January nights, when I hate my life, and try to start a fight, you're not falling for that one any more." So there's circling each other, plenty tension, building too, some sparks and pullme-pushyou, but relatively civil fuckyou, and meltdowns are (relatively) more implosive or one-to-one than previous, though no mumblecore; she can still project.
First couple tracks are gonna have to grow on me, with vocal lines smoothly extended, guitars tumbling and tunneling around her, but with a space between her and them--kind of like Petty and Heartbreakers with a better Petty. "More Than Ever" is where she laughs a little and then starts to let it blurt---"If you want self-control I'd have to break my fingers"---but doesn't let it rip past a certain dramatically timed point.
"Heaven" has slightly shuddering bassheart core, with very spare electronics occasionally flickering, checking in, whole thing pulling me in through the silence around it (in space no one can you scream).
"Out On Love" seems like she's been listening to (good) Patti Smith, with the well-paced drama again, "Bilbao" starts kinda like that, but suddenly she turns around, "Marry me, there's no place I'd rather be," kinda dreamily, but then again, "Even when the waves are ten feet tall, you don't look up", and when she comes back to the chorus, it might be "Bury me," working the Ohio country accent in a sneaky way, but just as sweet (maybe relating to how she wants a boy to come along and tell her not to jump off the roof--"There he is now, man!"---in "Real" which is not headbanging, but headjangling, and maybe she's been listening to Big Star too, yadda-yadda this is different but she's got me into most of it so far.

"Heaven" is my initial favorite, but it's probably the most atypical song on the album. Sorta in love with the whole thing, though.

"heaven" an early fave of mine, too

Publicist update:

Real, the highly anticipated new album from Lydia Loveless is out now via Bloodshot Records. Additionally, Loveless will perform on CBS This Morning Saturday on August 20 while the official music video for her track “Clumps” premieres on Vice’s Noisey. Of the video Noisey says, “It’s simple and gorgeous.” Watch the video here: http://bit.ly/2bzv44x

or oisey.vice.com/blog/lydia-loveless/

In support of the release, Loveless confirms additional dates this fall extending her ongoing North American tour with stops in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and more. See below for complete tour dates.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=b057aec5cb&view=fimg&th=156a3f88173b67da&attid=0.4&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ_KXg0nne_rLAbpr8NX8ZoufJrBVd0W6AmQbd9-0rk66deAxDs6_ZViKBxvTVOK_OdCs5YqrF1-vFm7AWpnnril0vGbee7sGywsE74LzixZ6SbExwwBAwPyIdE&sz=w500-h750&ats=1471637347542&rm=156a3f88173b67da&zw&atsh=1

Real was recorded at Sonic Lounge Studios in her home state of Ohio and was engineered and produced by Joe Viers (Dr. John, Twenty One Pilots). “I chose to work with Joe Viers, engineer and producer of my last three releases, again because I trust him completely not only with my music but with my words,” said Loveless. “There was a lot to say this time around and I wanted to return to that sort of playground and (sometimes literally) throw things at the wall. Whereas our previous records could be described as blunt or raw, this one I wanted to be known as honest, as true, as real (rimshot).”

Of the album Loveless says, “Because I feel like I spent my formative years flopping around like a fish, masking pain with substance abuse and somewhat ashamed of who I was—a hayseed, a phony, I felt—it was absolutely necessary for me to become a stronger, more confident human, or I was going to die. Real is my sort of love letter to that realization, that my existence was just as valid as any other."

LYDIA LOVELESS LIVE
August 20—Cincinnati, OH—Northside Yacht Club (solo)#
September 8—Columbus, OH —Ace Of Cups
September 9—Indianapolis, IN—The HiFi
September 10—Madison, WI—The Frequency
September 11—Milwaukee, WI—Colectivo on Prospect
September 14—Champaign, IL—The Accord
September 15—St. Louis, MO––The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
September 16––Louisville, KY––Zanzabar
September 17––Cleveland, OH––Grog Shop
September 20––25––Nashville, TN––AmercianaFest
September 24–Minneapolis, MN–First Avenue*
September 25–Sioux Falls, SD–The District*
September 28––Missoula, MT––The Wilma*
September 29––Seattle, WA––The Showbox*
September 30––Portland, OR––Wonder Ballroom*
October 1––Portland, OR––Wonder Ballroom*
October 2––Vancouver, BC––Rickshaw*
October 5––Sacramento, CA––Ace of Spades*
October 6––San Francisco, CA––The Fillmore*
October 7––San Francisco, CA––The Fillmore*
October 8––Stateline, NV––Montbleu Rescort Casino*
October 11––Los Angeles, CA––Teragram Ballroom*
October 12––Los Angeles, CA––Teragram Ballroom*
October 13––Solana Beach, CA––Belly Up*
October 14––San Luis Obispo, CA––The Fremont Theater*
October 15––Scottsdale, AZ––Live Wire*
October 18––Austin, TX––Antone’s
October 19––Houston, TX––Continental Club
October 21––Birmingham, AL––The Saturn
October 22––Atlanta, GA––Terminal West
November 4––Pontiac, MI––Pike Room
November 5––Toronto, ON––Adelaide Hall
November 6––Ithaca, NY––The Dock
November 7––Burlington, VT––Higher Ground
November 9––Portsmouth, NH––The Music Hall Loft
November 10––Allston, MA––Great Scott
November 11––Philadelphia, PA––MilkBoy
November 12––Charlottesville, VA––The Southern
November 13––Washington, DC––Rock & Roll Hotel
November 15––Pittsburgh, PA––Club Cafe
November 16––New York, NY––Bowery Ballroom
November 19––Chicago, IL––Metro

#with Tommy Stinson
*with Drive-By Truckers

Dunno why I now have to right-click to view image, but worth it.

revising my fave to "out on love"

also lydia + tommy would prob make my heart explode regardless of the actual quality of the show

I like "Heaven" too but I'm not feeling the back half yet.

Haven't really explored the latter part of the album yet though 'Midwestern Guys' sounds like a pretty brutal take down. I get the like for 'Heaven' (sounds like Aztec Camera to me - weird, I know) but loving 'More Than Ever'. Just a sucker for jangly twelve-strings.

I get the like for 'Heaven' (sounds like Aztec Camera to me - weird, I know)

Not weird. otm if you ask me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. Was really impressed with the Echo and The Bunnymen cover last year on the AV Club so I don't see this song as a big reach.

sorry i'm late, this year's album is pretty nice yes?

Hell yeah, it adds some different (jangle, dance etc.-associated, but still chunky) sounds, didn't grab me like the previous sets did, yknow from the first second (I'm spoiled), but it keeps building, and it's always her and no other: that voice, those words, sometimes almost spinning out of control, willfully and compulsively I reckon.

i like "longer" but the arrangements on the new album feel really... off?

I love 'heaven' , I can't resist to the mixture between fleetwood mac and hole's celebrity skin.

Real is a great album.....esp "Midwestern Guys", "Heaven" and "Clumps"

Listened to this headbangle country soul extension right before/after watching an "In The Americas" ep about fireworks as folk culture in Mexico, fit perfectly:

https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/sites/default/files/styles/product_large/public/album-art/lydia_cover.jpg?itok=UfVc0sOI

Boy Crazy and Single(s)
Lydia Loveless

DELUXE LP ON TRANSPARENT BEER YELLOW VINYL (FIRST PRESSING), includes digital download
Collection of Lydia Loveless’s summery 5-song EP Boy Crazy, on vinyl LP for the first time, plus six non-album singles and B-sides spanning her career. Also on CD and digital.

Out October 13

Track list and more info here:
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/boy-crazy-singles

^^this is great
my admiration for her songwriting has really grown

Lydia Loveless on her issues at Bloodshot Records (maybe inspired to post this by the Ryan Adams news, idk)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9YalTgNMp/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1qh5gdadu46a

Not really at all surprising that a label who allowed a man to grope, paw at and mentally disturb me for over five years still touts Ryan Adams as a fucking genius

— Lydia Loveless (@lydia_loveless) February 15, 2019

Fuckin yikes!

Super righteous takedown, moreso since she's still on Bloodshot, as far as i know. And i guess at this point she's their most high-profile artist? At present on tour opening for Mtn Gts.

my guess is she felt motivated to post by Bloodshot's Ryan-related tweets yesterday ... just couldn't hold it in after seeing those. again, this is a guess.

Lydia fucking rules.

Rob Miller, the other cofounder/coowner of Bloodshot, responds.

https://www.facebook.com/BloodshotRecords/posts/10156149241193193

I thought Rob's response was pretty good.

Nan's response...

https://www.facebook.com/BloodshotRecords/posts/10156149628338193

It’s so weird that she’s acknowledging the truth of the matter but standing by her man nonetheless.

I wonder if Lydia Loveless was one of their minor artists how this would have been addressed. Obviously LL was stewing over this bc they didn’t do anything and she had the clout now.

yeah the Rob one is good, the Nan one is o_O

It’s so weird that she’s acknowledging the truth of the matter but standing by her man nonetheless.

dang mind blown

To her credit, Nan didn't heart his tweet

http://i.imgur.com/nZ0Kyee.png

him being a creep who harassed a musician on her label, jeopardized that creative relationship, at present has caused that label to take a hit image-wise, and has led to her stepping away from the label...that all seems like grounds for a breakup but again if she wants to stick with him she’s free to do so, as weird as I may find it.

I know nothing about their relationship but I do know sometimes it's hard to leave a toxic victimizer, even when it's self-evidently in your own best interest.

Yeah, there is a whole emotional ecosystem in which these things take place from which it may be difficult to withdraw

yeah obv it's a tough situation, it's a bit unusual to see it play out like this, and it's pretty sad.

off topic, Real has grown and grown on me, I think it's her best album

i picked up that one and Boy Crazy and Singles, both are outstanding. Her documentary is on Amazon Prime right now, been meaning to watch it.

xxpost Miller and Warshaw both say he was banned from "Bloodshot events" and contact w the artists, that they didn't make a public announcement when Loveless first reported the behavior because "respecting her privacy" until she wanted to go public---so at least they've got their story straight. And Warshaw "stepping away," rather than going after Loveless, sounds about right, from this outsider's point of view.

So back to the music and thanks for mention of documentary, hadn't heard of that.

Although of course their ban claim does quite not fit w her for five years

it's pretty good! She's an interesting interview...some really great live footage

Maybe a bit long considering how relatively short her career is

also it's a bit awkward because at the time she's with her (a lot older) bass player and I think that divorce is a big part of the Real album? so it's a little outdated now

Would be no way to keep up with her, other than a day-to-day reality series. Yeah, even in email exchanges (for the featurette I posted way upthread), she was very forthcoming, without overselling or digressing---wish I'd had a little more room for quotes.

Big ol' interview re the Bloodshot situation

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/lydia-loveless-interview-sexual-misconduct-bloodshot-796785/

a few women commented on her IG story that they'd has incidents with this guy as well, at least one of them said she'd been sexually assaulted by him.

Her reasons for waiting are many, including how a woman’s claims of sexual abuse is often as traumatizing as the initial instances themselves. Also, because women are often told this is just “the way things are” in an industry built around casual social events, drinking and the myth of the eccentric male rock-star genius.

It's 2019 and people still believe this shit. I can see from the responses on Twitter that they do.

What exactly are you referring to as “this shit”?

"women are often told this is just “the way things are” in an industry built around casual social events, drinking and the myth of the eccentric male rock-star genius."

That's my (hopeful) guess.

Like, the immediate reaction I saw to the Ryan Adams revelations was a general "yeah, this dude is bad news" and "I'm glad this is coming out," but you only had to peel one layer deeper to find A LOT of people excusing all sorts of things.

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/bloodshot-records-co-owner-nan-warshaw-officially-resigns-amid-harassment-scandal/

Sounds like she's close to wrapping up an album. Thank goodness, she's great.

Yay! meanwhile:
@lydia_loveless
kicks this off:
From 2016: Indigo Girls, Wynonna & the Big Noise, Patty Larkin and Lydia Loveless on Mountain Stage (radio radi-oh, don't wait for the podcast post on Tues.) https://mountainstage.org/radio/Pages/ontheradio.aspx?ontheradioid=95
(Wynonna killin it too)

This is only ok, imo, but it's great to have a summer that finally sees the return of Loveless, Kathleen Edwards, Gillian Welch and heck, even the Dixie Chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cmPQ3BcnQ

I would agree it's not exceptional, but solid...feels like a side 2 album track.
that said, I love how she sings and the way she puts songs and lyrics together.
Really happy she's back.

Real grows in my estimation more and more as time passes.

Saw her opening to tMG last year and enjoyed it very much, so I happily preordered this and will await results.

yeah, excited to hear this album. SOMEWHERE ELSE is a classic, and REAL is great, too.

(that new album cover, though ... not great.)

How do I unsee this album cover?

Real has slowly become my favorite

Taking pre-orders, her first self-release, Sept. 25 (she recently tweeted pic of a cake her friend made, with this cover art https://lydialoveless.bandcamp.com/album/daughter

New one's her best.

oooh thanks!

i hope that's true but there's no way it's better than Somewhere Else

will report back if i am proven wrong

The title track is a particular stunner.

oh so this is just a re-release of the Boy Crazy EP and a handful of singles & bsides? the Boy Crazy EP is indeed fantastic. not sure I'm familiar with these other tunes in the second half. Wouldn't really compare this to her proper albums (Somewhere Else is my favorite, too).

https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/boy-crazy-singles

No, it's a whole new album of originals:

https://lydialoveless.bandcamp.com/album/daughter

lol I was so confused. Alfred way ahead as usual. Very excited for this one!

Yeah, and Boy Crazy + Single(s) is good too. Before I forget, the xpost doc is on nicely priced DVD (and Prime stream) here*, with lots of pleased purchaser reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Lydia-Loveless-Who/dp/B074QVPDPQ/ref=sr_1_4?crid=34ORI9S6140VV&dchild=1&keywords=lydia+loveless&qid=1601053495&s=music&sprefix=Lydia+%2Cpopular%2C186&sr=1-4

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81WZHdqs81L._SL1200_.jpg

*(also a sep listing for vinyl soundtrack)

"September" is gorgeous

So the new one returns to her consistently Columbus-to-Chicago urban country jangle, though now all in the searching, introspective singer-songwriter mode, though certainly more concisely compressed, candidly judicious than most such albums; she's not letting fly like "Idiot Wind" and bridge-barn-burning Natalie Maines. She's past that, going deeper/further/along in this remarkably shitty, damaged and damaging time, having apparently broken with her mate and Bloodshot too:
In a second floor apartment
The heat does rise
It’s a sensory bombardment
Sweat and tears in your eyes

Well isn’t this what everybody does
Go out on their own
I was the one who wanted more
Now I’m just sitting at home
---but even the most developmental tracks, incl. the strongest ones, "Daughter"
There’s never been a better time to be alive
The arms of opportunity are spread wide
I wanna be a part of you but it’s not enough
If I gave you a daughter would you open up

Oh to be like Mary full of grace
You’d be worshipping my body and my brain
Cuz I know you never take me at my word
It’s always something you’ve already heard
Why can’t I show you this side of me
And prove to you who I could be

There’s never been a better time to be a wife
I wanna show you something you can’t memorize---and the equally eerie finale, "Don't Bother Mountain," so far seem anchored tp Phil Collins-recalling drum atmospheres, though with her own deft production touches, and gray Morning After sources: no bad tracks, but I miss the headbanging sweat-it-out breakthroughs of yore---some wailing on "September," and her voice is strong, committed, all through, but overall effect so far a bit frustrating. I hope there will be more remixes.

Words can be amazing, music not as much.

It's all pretty slow, is what I mean.

Too cautious.

But I'll keep listening, prob get more involved in details, to some extent.

"Never" -- fabulous.

Yeah, the new one is really good.

This is the first year in ... years that I have not been able to keep up with all the good records I don't just think I need to hear but *want* to hear.

My first impression based on yesterday's afternoon listen is that her voice is too mix forward or something and kind of overpowers the rest of everything in a not great way. It's like a wet blanket.

First time through and agree with much of what's been said. I'm listening on shure iems and there are a few tunes, most notably "Can't Think," that sound super muddy beneath her vocals (somehow made even worse by some studio tricks in the last twenty seconds?). New producer/mixer appears to have done all the Jeff Tweedy associated production for the last decade, so surprised (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-schick-mn0000934331). I thought the Bloodshot "sound" suited her well.

On the songwriting side, I like the second half more than the first. Side A has some downtempo tunes that lack the emotional gut punch of an "Everything's Gone." Side B has:
- "Never" - successful marriage of heartland rock and synth pop
- "When You're Gone" - really interesting structure without a clearly defined chorus (?) but still feels like a sing a long
- "September" - piano and cello ballad with some call and response help from Laura Jane Grace that works

All that to say, very hard to imagine Somewhere Else ever being impeached as my favorite of hers.

I will fall asleep and have fewer nightmares of death once I know that a Killer Psychiatrist is tucked away safely in a mental institution and led to believe he works there.

LL copes with late night-on-tour-to-quarantine anxieties via old faithful Lifetime:
https://www.nodepression.com/spotlight-lydia-loveless-on-leaning-into-lifetime-movies/?mc_cid=6035ce295f&mc_eid=b850f832a1

Might not have helped with the album though.

Enjoyed your review Alfred

Just skimmed this thread enough to be intrigued and really liking her stuff so thanks all.

Thank, ums!

Yeah. Wish I heard it more that way, maybe eventually.

okay now I do, should have stood by, as the President requests, and listened some more before maiden post. Helps that I came back to it after bandcamp streaming Boots 02: The Lost Songs Vol.2, by Gillian Welch, who is much closer, or more obviously (to this simple male mind) close to being a full-time inhabitant of this guarded, weathered truck garden of love and regret, the one with no-frills flights on a leash (and both artists' current sets sport fine September ramblin' bridge songs), but now I get that Loveless is more confrontational, just as intimate, but in a clinch, noting the marks she's leaving and has and will leave---and though, no "headbanging sweatbox catharis" as I prev. missed these flights do achieve liftoff into that LL narrative momentum:
I can’t believe the worst kinds of people achieve
Everything they want
But it takes medication to get me off

So sick and tired of living in a rut

Love is not enough
I wonder if it ever was
I shouldn’t have to bleed you dry to fill me up
Not that she's letting him off the hook---ooo, always wanting her tp provide a little "sun," like,"Smile more often, " like the Bossman say---and the way she gets from opening with:
What is my body worth to you
Without your blood in it
to closing time:
If I gave you a daughter would you open up,
and all points in between, as ZZ Top would put it, via LL wide-awake dream logic, relentlessly articulate---is true grit poetry, LL as hell, incl. Loretta Lynn talking points.
And seems more like To Be Continued than total closer (she's tweeted something about pregnancy).
The music, as written, arranges and performed-inhabited, now carries me through the words much more than on first listen, and the last track's dark groove, pushing on falling back pushing on, also seems like something To Be Continued---still hoping for more remixes, for one thing.

Tangential to Loveless, but I had no idea the extent of this mess:

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bloodshot-records-nan-warshaw-rob-miller-royalties-sale/Content?oid=84834310

ugh

Forgot about all that for a little bit

Warshaw’s excuse for not doing anything about her partner’s harassment is pathetic.

Yeah this is revealing:

Nearly two years before Loveless's post, she says, Miller told her "out of nowhere" that a female Bloodshot artist had confided in him that Panick was sexually harassing her. He didn't initially name the artist or get into specifics about Panick's misdeeds. Warshaw says those omissions left her powerless to rectify the situation and set her up to appear unsympathetic...

He adds that Warshaw should've known the allegations he'd originally shared involved Loveless. "I said it was an artist at our South by Southwest showcase that year," he explains. "Lydia was, that year, the only female artist. I assumed, falsely, that Nan could extrapolate that I didn't mean that the Waco Brothers were being harassed."

Stiener says that Loveless had only recouped $2,000 after three albums

@lydia_loveless
This is super corny, but I had a dream last night me and the band were on tour with DBT. It was one of those I am sad that isn’t real/sort of keeping me positive today dreams. I hope one day we can actually live real life again.
5:30 PM · Jan 31, 2021

@lydia_loveless
Also I wish I could say I am using this time to write the album of my dreams and be there for people, I’m actually consuming art and making it in a way that is equivalent to standing in front of the fridge naked and blasting reddiwhip into your mouth. I am not ok. But will be.

Lydia Loveless
@lydia_loveless
I’m currently at a school for audio engineering surrounded by people ten years younger than me and I’m amazed thinking about all the older people trying to bang me at that age. Please let young adults be young adults they are the future

Lydia Loveless
@lydia_loveless
Just got divorced and now have reached the age where all my peers are getting Christmas engaged lol
7:46 PM · Dec 26, 2021

Every time she tweets about her divorce there's a mob of reply guys.

Lydia Loveless
@lydia_loveless
I’ve been really hard on myself my entire life and it hasn’t really done me that much good. There was a decade or so where flogging myself internally furthered my career but now I’m just thinking maybe gentleness is what I need. New ye201ar more oily mental masturbation is my mantra
8:28 PM · Dec 31, 2021
210 likes
Lydia Loveless
@lydia_loveless
Just lubing up my sore brain and easing back from the ol socials and will see you when I’m a big sexy oil can again.
8:30 PM · Dec 31, 2021
112 likes

@lydia_loveless
This is super corny, but I had a dream last night me and the band were on tour with DBT. It was one of those I am sad that isn’t real/sort of keeping me positive today dreams. I hope one day we can actually live real life again.
5:30 PM · Jan 31, 2021

Welp

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS LIVE 2022
* with special guest Lydia Loveless
APRIL
12 - Ponte Vedra, FL - Ponte Vedra Concert Hall *
14 - Augusta, GA - Imperial Theatre *
15 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl Nashville *
16 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl Nashville *
18 - Lexington, KY - The Burl (Outdoors) *
20 - Ashland, KY - Paramount Arts Center *
21 - Harrisburg, PA - Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center *
22 - Syracuse, NY - Westcott Theater *
23 - Ottawa, ON - Bronson Centre *
24 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall *
26 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *
28 - Boston, MA Royale *
29 - Asbury Park, NJ - Stone Pony *
30 - Philadelphia, PA - Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia *

MAY
1 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle *

Saw them play a set of mostly new solo/acoustic/fierce unabashedly queer songs. No idea if the songs will be recorded that way, but they really worked, going ina new direction from what I’d heard before.

Turns out one song I thought was new was from 2014: “Mile High.”

did yall see this:
https://pitchfork.com/news/lydia-loveless-announces-album-shares-video-for-new-song-toothless-watch/

that's great! very classic lydia loveless soaring chorus

Indeed! Looking forward.

been listening to the new one a lot, love it, never could get my arms around the last album

another new one from the upcoming album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unm3vH9kwW8

Digging the new one right now...